[dr_lew]

“One common form of courtship was for a man to “fix on some female of a tribe at enmity with his own…stupefy her with blows on her head, back, neck…then drag her streaming with blood…till he reaches his tribe.”

This used to be accepted as a parodical template for modern courtship in the form of the caveman with his club dragging home his catch. One considered that this was no longer acceptable, but it was obviously not beyond contemplation.

[Ronin]

"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."

Thomas Hobbes

[colorado tanker]